[Gluster-devel] About gluster on 32 bits

[Bala.A]

Thanks for reporting the problem.

I will upload the missing tarballs tonight into
http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/gluster/external/ directory.

Also I would like to say that compilation works only in debian etch.



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> I am putting together a 32-bit cluster and have had some difficulty in
> compiling the iso from the source. I first note (for your reference) that
> two of the commands listed in the message are incorrect (as I found out
> after a little frustration). The command given as:
>
> $ export $PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/gluster-toolchain-on32-32-64/bin
>
> needs to have the '$' character omitted from the first $PATH, otherwise
> errors abound (I am using Debian, so if this is a distribution-specific
> problem, please forgive; I didn't test elsewhere). Also,
>
> wget -Ptarballs -nH http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/gluster/external/*
>
> doesn't work, because wget won't parse wildcards (same caveat).  Now to
> the meat of my quandry.  Small problems aside, I worked my way down to the
> step where make is invoked, but the buck stops there.  Every time I run
> make, it runs for 1-2 hours, at which time it will die, complaining that
> it couldn't find some file in the /tarballs directory.  A wget is invoked
> within make, and it tries to download from
> http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/gluster/external/(missing-file.tar.gz), an
> effort which fails every time.  The missing file is always one that is
> already on the server (and hence in my /tarballs directory), but with a
> different version number.  I have gone through about 5 or 6 rounds of
> this, and at ~2 hours/attempt it is becoming more than a little
> troublesome.  I regret to say that I haven't recorded and don't remember
> the files which have caused this behavior, but I have soldiered on and
> found and downloaded each one in succession (from various and sundry
> sites, since they are not on your server).  I have finally run into a
> problem which I cannot surmount, however, with iputils.  The version on
> your server is iputils_20020927.tar.gz, but make chokes looking for
> iputils_20070202.tar.gz.  I have found copies of this file in a very few
> different sources, but every time I download this file, there is some
> error (the tarball is corrupted or it's missing files when it unpacks,
> etc.).  Can you please tell me how to fix this problem, or--even
> better--how to get make to want only the versions of the files you have
> posted.  Thank you for your time and assistance.
>
> Tim Russell
> Eastern Illinois University
>
>

Thanks,

Regards,
Bala
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